The Phantoms dropped Sunday’s rematch with the Bears in overtime, but Aleksei Kolosov put in a huge performance to help them salvage one standings point.
The Phantoms closed out their first three-in-three weekend of the season yesterday in Hershey, and were looking to exact a bit of revenge after a gutting regulation loss in Saturday’s meeting. And it was a rematch that was going well enough for them, for a time, anyway — after a tightly played first period, the Phantoms were able to finally break through early in the second, grabbing the lead and doing some nice work to hold onto it, at least until things started to go sideways on them, and an unlucky bounce helped the Bears draw even late in the third period, and then a breakdown in coverage opened up space for them to pick up the game winner in overtime to sweep the weekend series.